Data center provider Equinix has launched its Distributed AI infrastructure, which includes a new AI-ready backbone to support high performance distributed AI deployments spanning multiple data center facilities, a global AI Proving Ground to test new solutions, and Fabric Intelligence to better support next generation enterprise workloads.
Equinix designed Distributed AI from the ground up to support the scale, speed, and complexity of modern intelligent systems, such as autonomous, agentic AI capable of reasoning, acting, and learning independently.
AI is inherently distributed, drawing on multiple data sources in different locations. To effectively train a model, data must be drawn from multiple locations and processed where it lies, not moved around. This requires a new kind of infrastructure that is globally distributed, deeply interconnected, and fully programmable. Distributed AI links more than 270 data centers in over 60 markets, effectively including almost all Equinix’s facilities, according to the vendor.